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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

its nice to hear all the folks here waxing lyrically about Slack :-) although not everyone has the same flawless experience.......... it is taking me a lot of effort to get some things working as i think they ought to.

other distros... worked out of the box on the machine i use! lets have a balanced view here :-)

now then, i will admit this.... despite the effort, i quite like the Slack venture and hope to arrive where you folks are all at :-)

OK, here is an isue with the 64-bit version of Slackware 14.1 ... in all previous 32 bit installations I have come to rely on the Slackupdate shell script from http://darklinux.net what this does is compared your installed packages /var/log/packages with the versions that are up on mirror sites and it downloads updated packages to /tmp/slackupdate/ so that [root] may install them. This does not work in the 64-bit version of Slackware 14.1 but does continue to work in the 32-bit version.

How do I work to insure that I have the latest versions of packages? Debian users have something called apt-get which I don't know much about but in reading about this it looks like it is used to install packages that you do not have in your installation, that's not what I am looking for. Any ideas?